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Changing professions

Which professional tasks are being absorbed first, and what is left that only people can do.

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Future of work
Changing professions
Spinouts and student entrepreneurship
Applied AI in universities

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Cohorts working on this, over weeks rather than an afternoon.

AI for Lean Spinouts
AI for Lean Spinouts.
Completed
August 2026
AIIA Business Challenge Dissertations: see what AI could do for your business.
For businesses in London and the South East: a University of Surrey student takes on your challenge as their dissertation, supervised by the University. Free to take part.
Open for applications
Crackathon™
Short, social AI hackathons for team days, staff development and teaching, alongside any celebration, in person or online. Pull a cracker, open the prompt, crack it as a team.
The Future of the Professions (and Professionals) in the AI Age
Free seasons of talks and sessions on how AI is changing one profession at a time.

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Single sessions. Coming to one is the cheapest way to find out whether the longer thing is for you.

17:00 to 17:45
AI Innovation Accelerator: Work with the next generation of AI engineers
A free 45-minute online briefing for engineering firms wondering what agentic AI could do for them, and what it would take to find out with a Surrey MSc student.
Open to everyone
17:00 to 17:45
AI Innovation Accelerator: Work with the next generation of AI engineers
A free 45-minute online briefing for engineering firms wondering what agentic AI could do for them, and what it would take to find out with a Surrey MSc student.
Open to everyone
13:00 to 13:45
AI Innovation Accelerator: Work with the next generation of AI engineers
A free 45-minute online briefing for engineering firms wondering what agentic AI could do for them, and what it would take to find out with a Surrey MSc student.
Open to everyone
17:00 to 18:00
AIIA AI Engineering Challenge: briefing
[WHY COME TO WRITE] A short online briefing the day before the 2026 Crackathon opens: what it is, how the days work and how to take part.
Open to everyone
17:00 to 18:00
Santa's North Pole Productivity Challenge: launch
[WHY COME TO WRITE] The evening launch of the 2026 Crackathon, on the day the first self-guided day opens.
Open to everyone
AIIA AI Engineering Challenge: hackathon day
Teams form and go to work on businesses' draft challenges, so the feedback sharpens the briefs before they reach the University.
Open to everyone
A house of cards mid-fall
Businesses
Foresight

The ground is moving: architecture, design and engineering in an AI age

The ground is moving and some of the cards are wobbling. But this isn't a collapse story: professions that adapt for their clients could come out stronger. Here's who is saying what.

Michael Kohn, founder of Agent Build Club
Michael Kohn
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8
min read
A person and a robot working together at a desk
Businesses
Foresight

Are we removing the first rung of the career ladder? Rethinking how junior professionals learn their craft

The tedious jobs juniors used to learn on are being solved by AI. But those jobs were how judgement got built. If the first rung is moving, the apprenticeship has to be rebuilt on purpose.

Michael Kohn, founder of Agent Build Club
Michael Kohn
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8
min read